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The UK National Grid Service Neil Geddes e-Science Director, CCLRC

EPSRC. The UK National Grid Service Neil Geddes e-Science Director, CCLRC. The Mission of the NGS.

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The UK National Grid Service Neil Geddes e-Science Director, CCLRC

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  1. EPSRC The UKNational Grid ServiceNeil Geddese-Science Director, CCLRC

  2. The Mission of the NGS To provide coherent electronic access for UK researchers to all computational and data based resources and facilities required to carry out their research, independent of resource or researcher location

  3. The Vision of the NGS • National infrastructure services which allow researchers to: • systematically create, process, preserve and publish digital information; • easily navigate through the available resources; • be confident in the quality of the services available; • tie into international efforts • To achieve this, the NGS will • Lead the deployment of a common grid infrastructure • Promote common open standards • Through the NGS Partnership programme, integrate services to access a growing number, scale and variety of resources • A production Service

  4. The NGS Today

  5. NGS-2 • Each Core Site • Thin compute node • 48 dual socket dual core AMD Opteron 280 • 8GB memory • Fat compute node • 8 quad socket dual core AMD Opteron 280 • 32GB memory • Storage • Leeds and Oxford • 15 TB Fibre SAN • 3 dual socket dual core AMD Opteron 280 servers • Manchester and CCLRC • 60 TB Fibre SAN • 8 dual socket dual core AMD Opteron 280 servers In Total 1024 Cores, 2.5TB memory, 150TB disk, 100kW power

  6. Application Repository

  7. Access to NGS • Evolving models • Several agenda’s • Encourage new users, support collaborative activities, enable research • How do users get access • Lightweight “peer review” (e-science certificate) • Individual users -> projects • What do users get • Access to resources (that they are authorised to use or pay for) • Access to core services • “free” allocations on core nodes (and some partners) • Time limited allocations • No guarantees beyond each re-application - best efforts • Opportunity to build a collaboration/case/support • Many users news to the game, e.g. students

  8. Conclusions • National Grid Service in operation since 2004. • Key strategic component • JISC, EPSRC, CCLRC • Inclusive infrastructure, not exclusive club • Look forward to working with a increasingly wide range of research projects

  9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . operational support Digital Libraries HPC networking certification Grid one stop shop specific services GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities networking security specific services middleware global filing system GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities e-Infrastructure in Europe DEISA Mário Campolargo DG INFSO F3, Pisa 24th October 2005

  10. International Identity • The NGS operates the UK e-Science Certification Authority (CA) providing X.509 certificates for the UK e-Science community. • It is the CA for Grid and e-Science activities in the UK, meaning it is internationally approved to issue certificates to people and hosts in the UK. • Identity certified by network of Registration Authorities throughout the UK. • ArmeSFo GridCanada CERNCNRS Grid-FR CyGrid CESNETDutchGridGermanGridHellasGridGrid-Ireland • INFNIUCCNorduGridPolishGridLIP RussianDataGrid SlovakGridDataGrid-ESASCCG TaiwanDoeGrids • ESnet Belnet GridGrid-PKSIGNET SEE-GRIDEstonian GridRMKIAustrian Grid SWITCH • NIIF/HungarNetIHEPDFNRDIGBalticGrid TR-GridpkIRISGrid SRCE ... • Integration with Shibboleth already on the agenda

  11. PP + Astronomy Large facilities Eng. + Phys. Sci biology Env. Sci Humanities Medicine Sociology Users by discipline NGS Use Files stored ~450 users CPU time by user Users by institution

  12. substrate complex product complex Text mining ADP ATP Applications: 1 Molecular Dynamics Lattice Boltzmann

  13. Systems Biology Econometric analysis Neutron Scattering Climate modelling Applications: 2

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